telegraf

This role attempts to install and configure telegraf, a monitoring agent written in Go.

Requirements

• Tested on Ansible 2.6 or higher.

Role Variables

telegraf_agent_output

Output target for data gathered by telegraf. See defaults/main.yml for an example.

telegraf_plugins

Additional input plugins to be configured. This is a list containing unnamed dictionaries with the following keys:

• plugin -- name of the plugin
• config -- list of lines that will be put in the config file for the plugin

See Example Playbook below.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

This example installs an additional input plugin ping with a configuration option.

- hosts: servers
  tasks:
    - import_role:
        name: jniewt.telegraf
      vars:
        telegraf_plugins:
          - plugin: ping
            config:
              - 'urls = ["www.google.com", "1.2.3.4"] # required'

License

MIT

Author Information

jniewt | jniewt@gmail.com